Which three botanists independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work in 1900?

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In 1900, the work of Gregor Mendel on the principles of heredity was independently rediscovered by three botanists who recognized the significance of his studies through their own hybridization experiments. These three scientists were:123

  • Hugo de Vries: A Dutch botanist and geneticist who, while researching plant mutations, arrived at the same laws of heredity as Mendel and subsequently located Mendel's 1866 paper.24
  • Carl Erich Correns: A German botanist who conducted research with garden peas and reached conclusions identical to Mendel's before discovering the monk's original publication.12
  • Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg: An Austrian botanist who, while performing his own breeding experiments on garden peas, found that Mendel’s work duplicated and superseded his own findings.52